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by howlin 7y ago
It's important to recognize that the cortex is a relatively late addition to the structure of the brain. Brains have been learning about the world and how to behave appropriately long before some mammals developed such a large region h
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by howlin 7y ago
A significant fraction of the population has a religious or moral objection to eating lard. A smaller but still substantial part of the population objects to tallow based on vegetarianism or the terrible environmental impact of cattle raisi
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by howlin 7y ago
Palm oil became a thing when cheap, shelf stable fats in the form of partially hydrogenated oil were realized to be unhealthy. Instead of the world giving up the eternally fresh package of Oreos, we move to massive production of tropical oi
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by howlin 7y ago
Olive oil works ok for most purposes but it is fairly expensive and much fussier to work with given the lower sat. fat content. Though it is very stable when pure, olive oil can go rancid fairly quickly when incorporated into processed foo
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by howlin 7y ago
It's a tough subject. Most saturated fats either come from animals, tropical plants or are produced synthetically via hydrogenation. The trajectory seems to have been animal to partially hydrogenated plant oil to tropical oils. I don&#
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by howlin 7y ago
Most farmed salmon eat a diet heavy in fish meal, derived from wild caught but "undesirable" fish. Eating farmed salmon may not harm wild salmon populations directly, but they still have an impact on wild fish stock. Eventually, t
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by howlin 8y ago
Myth 8: Machine learning == visual object classification
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by howlin 8y ago
As with many things that may or may not be too poisonous to count as food, it's worth looking at these compared to ethanol. The lethal dose of ethanol is fairly low multiple of the dose that will provide a buzzed or pleasantly drunk st
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by howlin 8y ago
Certain airlines have near monopolies on certain airports. These airports are called hubs. The airline uses these hubs as points of connection for multilegged flights. It also means that someone who actually wants to use the airline's
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by howlin 8y ago
In terms of rifles, the relevant calculation would be more along the lines of the probability of a calamity happening and the rifle coming in handy, versus the probability that the rifle is abused in some way (stolen, harmful accident or su
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by howlin 8y ago
""" It's not enough to sell as many mobile phones as you did last year, no, you must sell 10% more each quarter, or whatever. """ But if the next gen of phones use 30% less resources, it's still poss
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by howlin 8y ago
People are fickle when it comes to adding ethical considerations to their purchasing decisions. The same person who will buy the cheapest meat without considering how the animal was treated will also vote for stricter animal welfare laws.
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by howlin 8y ago
A lot of lower level mortgage brokers clearly committed fraud in the applications they processed. There may be some criminal or civil negligence by middle management by ignoring the fraud in an attempt to meet quotas. Unfortunately, it&#x27
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by howlin 8y ago
I'm surprised Pearl doesn't mention reinforcement learning once in this essay. This domain is where Pearl-style causal reasoning frameworks most closely meets data-driven statistical machine learning methods. Methods such have Dyn
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by howlin 9y ago
You would have to actively rebalance to keep equal weighting, so it is not as passive as typical market cap weighting.
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by howlin 9y ago
Google shares represent a stake in Google's revenue stream. It has an intrinsic value beyond what you could currently sell a share at on the stock market. Likewise gold has some intrinsic value in manufacturing and ornamentation. Bitc
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by howlin 9y ago
The majority of the hash power is in China. If China can seize the miners all at once, they'll have control over the blockchain. At that point, other countries would be foolish to compete, and may focus on alternate alt currencies.
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by howlin 9y ago
They could buy the hardware and power needed to mine new coins. This seems to be the simplest solution for someone who wants to get a couple thousand bitcoins without leaving a paper trail.
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by howlin 9y ago
The other option is to decentralize. As long as there are no major population concentrations, there are no super desirable terror targets. That could keep the casualties small and containable. I suspect the million-plus metropolis will b
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by howlin 10y ago
The Russian and Canadian permafrost tundras will be incredibly productive farmland once they thaw. The main food problems will come near the equator, where people tend to be poorer. They'll lose farm land as well as fish stock in the o
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by howlin 10y ago
Pigs have personality too. But most people would never know it given how livestock are treated.
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by howlin 10y ago
Trump's election may very well cause US democracy to "fall apart". He's already signaled that he wants to stifle a free press, and he's made a lot of campaign promises that go against the rule of law. Congress doesn
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by howlin 10y ago
I think you misread the article. The article headline is paraphrasing Theil saying that Silicon Valley's majority support for Clinton is out of touch. Basically things are going well here, so they aren't aware of how ready the re
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by howlin 10y ago
No one is accusing Thiel of being racist in this article.
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by howlin 10y ago
The white house and congress was deadlocked, the government was shut down, and the treasury was not legally authorized to borrow more to make payments. There was talk of a trillion dollar coin to side step the national debt cap. This was a
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by howlin 10y ago
> although S&P went a step further and downgraded the US in a fit of rage when the SEC started investigating them for ratings fraud in 2011. At the time, the US government was actively considering whether to default on US Treasuries.
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by howlin 10y ago
> Will any of his earnings and bonuses be clawed back? They already have clawed back a lot of his bonus http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/27/investing/wells-fargo-ceo-cl...
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by howlin 10y ago
Brogue is very similar in spirit to the original. It was excellent game balancing and isn't overly complicated. Compared to many other modern RLs, this one is very approachable and allows one to make progress early.
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by howlin 10y ago
Unfortunately, central banks don't have much leeway in choosing where the money goes. Government budgets can distribute money to people through welfare, jobs programs or infrastructure investment. By creating a low interest rate, the c
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by howlin 10y ago
Yes you're right. How confusing!

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